A British former newspaper editor who was convicted of killing his wife with a hammer at their Dubai home has had his sentence extended to 15 years.
Francis Matthew was found guilty in March of bludgeoning his 62-year-old wife Jane to death at their home and was sentenced to 10 years in prison.
He first told detectives that robbers broke into his home and killed his wife.
The latest verdict was announced Sunday after both sides had appealed. Matthew, 61, appealed against the sentence after he claimed he did not plan to kill his wife or hit her to cause fatal injury.
The former editor of the English-language Gulf News had faced the possibility of the death penalty over the July 2017 killing of his wife of over 30 years. Matthew and his wife were prominent members of the UAE's large British expatriate community.
Peter Manning, Jane's brother, welcomed the ruling, saying the lesser sentence would have been a "terrible injustice."
Gulf News previously has said Matthew served as its editor from 1995-2005 and then became an editor-at-large at the newspaper.
